Alex Kirk

The appeal of having WordPress take over more responsibilities than public websites is to reduce dependency on other (web) services that each have their own agenda.

Although I won’t be attending the WordPress conference WordCamp Europe 2026 in Krakow this year because of other commitments, I built something that could be useful for attendees of it, as well as for future WordCamps.

David Pierce’s piece in The Verge about the “personal software revolution” captures something that resonates strongly with me: AI is making it easier to create software for one’s exact needs.

Most WordPress plugins are built to grow your audience.

It has been baking for much longer than I wanted, but today I released the next major version of my Friends Plugin for WordPress.

You’re on the train, scrolling through your WordPress site on your phone, and you see an issue that you’d like to fix, for example improvement to the mobile view.

I’ll speak about Telex and how to use Playground in your AI workflow at today’s WordPress Vienna meetup!

In past years, as a developer, for some features or the early stages of software, writing down the code felt like a chore.

Did you ever get a little annoyed at phpcs?

I have updated my Playground Step Library (which I had written about before)–the tool that allows you to use more advanced steps in WordPress Playground–so that it can now also be used programmatically: It is now an npm package: playground-step-library.